Today's Sports

Reid Griffith of Los Alamos was among the top performers during Northern New Mexico Senior Men’s Golf Association play.
Griffith had a net score of 72 at Albuquerque Country Club Aug. 1,
The NNMSMGA held a pair of tournaments last week, at the Albuquerque Country Club and at Twin Warriors Golf Course at Santa Ana Pueblo.
Also from Los Alamos, Bob Quick finished with the low gross score in the first flight Aug. 1 and Spike Jones had the second low gross score in the second flight.

Here are the results from the Northern New Mexico Senior Men’s Golf Association tournaments from Albuquerque Country Club and Twin Warriors Golf Club.

Defending state women’s champion Marisa Bautista knocked off top local player Tami Martinson to move on to the semifinals of the women’s New Mexico State Amateur Championship tournament.
Bautista topped Martinson 3 and 2 to move on to the semifinals of the tournament, which is being played at Los Alamos Golf Course. The tournament continues through Thursday.
A pair of matches in Tuesday’s first round were decided by scores of 3 and 2 while the other two contests went right down to the wire.

Darian Zachek took a solid victory Monday in the qualifying round of the New Mexico State Amateur Championship tournament.
Zachek shot a 3-over 75 Monday to pace the qualifying tournament, winning by three strokes over Chanet Fiorina and Nancy Romero.
Los Alamos Golf Course is hosting the women’s state tournament, which started with single-elimination match play this morning. The tournament continues through Thursday.
The top seven finishers in Monday’s qualifier advanced to the championship flight of the match-play event. The 2010 state amateur champ, Marisa Bautista, got an automatic bid into the tournament, although she didn’t need it, finishing sixth in the stroke-play qualifier.

A pair of Los Alamos Fencing Club epeeists turned in impressive performances at the Santa Fe Roasters competition.
The Santa Fe Roasters fencing competition was held July 30 at the New Mexico Fencing Foundation.
Club newcomer Patrick Webb had a big showing at the tournament in the men’s open epee division.
For his part, Webb finished in third place, losing only to eventual champion Gavin Medeley, a collegiate competitor at Ohio State University.
For his finish in the tournament, Webb earned a ‘C’ rating — he went into the weekend unranked.

The fall sports meeting for Los Alamos High School will be held Wednesday at the Duane Smith Auditorium.
All athletes competing in a fall sport and their parents must attend this meeting or schedule a make-up meeting with Los Alamos High School athletic director Vicki Nelms. The meeting will start at 6 p.m.
Following the conclusion of the fall sports meeting, athletes will attend sports-specific meetings with their head coaches.
For more information, call 663-2531.

Final Splash N Dash of season set

The final Splash N Dash of the season will take place Wednesday starting at the Larry R. Walkup Aquatic Center. The event starts at 7 p.m.

Competitors running in Saturday’s Firecracker 5K race (l-r) Tim Wermer, Kevin Hemphill and Ryan Fenton lead the pack at the halfway point. Fenton would eventually pull away and win the race with a time of 15 minutes, 14.44 seconds. Over 150 runners took part in Saturday’s run.

The Albuquerque Isotopes dropped the second of its four-game home series to the Salt Lake City Bees Monday night.
The Bees scored five runs in the fifth inning, four of them charged to starter John Ely, to win Monday’s contest 9-6.
The two teams meet again tonight at 7:05 p.m. The series and the current Istopes homestand wraps up Wednesday.
Salt Lake City finished with 16 hits in the game, 11 off Ely (6-5), who lasted just 4-1/3 innings.
Albuquerque dropped the series opener to Salt Lake City, 11-8 Sunday. It trails Round Rock by nine games in the PCL American Southern division with 25 games remaining in the 2011 season.

MADRID (AP) — He has a contract with one of soccer’s biggest clubs and the same long, floppy hair and nickname Leo of his idol, Lionel Messi.
It may take awhile, however, before Leonel Angel Coira can match the wondrous Messi: He is 7 years old.
Real Madrid said Monday it signed the Argentine prodigy to its youth academy after seeing him in tryouts. He will start training with Madrid’s youth team in September.
Coira hopes to follow the path set by Messi, a countryman who joined Barcelona from the Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys as a teenager and has gone on to win the World Player of the Year award two times.

he 2011 Southern Rockies Natural Bodybuilding and Fitness Competition was held Saturday at the Duane Smith Auditorium. The contest included 25 competitors in 10 different experience and age divisions this year.